East meets West: current issues relevant to integrating Chinese medicine

This article describes the challenges that integration of Chinese medicine (CM) and biomedicine are likely to bring for improving safety, research, education, and cross-disciplinary communication. Potential strategies to meet these challenges are suggested, including the use of accessible language f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Wong, Emily Yen, Gaster, Barak, Lee, Sum Ping
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22943066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-7-20
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Sumario:This article describes the challenges that integration of Chinese medicine (CM) and biomedicine are likely to bring for improving safety, research, education, and cross-disciplinary communication. Potential strategies to meet these challenges are suggested, including the use of accessible language for the Western biomedical community, and further development of whole-system randomized controlled trials that support individualized treatment approaches.

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